It was only fitting that David Bobb, who
is one of UMBC's most decorated athletes to ever don the Retriever
black and gold, take over as head track and field coach following
his stellar career as a Retriever athlete. Now entering
his 15th season with the women and 12th at the helm of the men's
squad, Bobb continues to raise the bar for his athletes as he leads
them into their ninth season in the America East Conference.

In the first year, UMBC's men's team placed sixth
at the outdoor conference championship meet while the women took
eighth. A year later, Bobb moved the men's team to third
place while the women moved up a spot to seventh, while nearly
doubling their team score. During the 2005-06 campaign,
the men placed second at the indoor conference championship and
fourth in outdoor, while the women placed fifth and fourth,
respectively. In 2006-07, the Retrievers hosted their
first meet since 2003 with the America East Championships, and Bobb
led the men to a third-place and the women to a seventh-place
finish. In 2007-08, the Retriever men and women finished fifth and
fourth at the outdoor meet, respectively, and in 2008-09, the men
finished fourth in both indoor and outdoor.

During the 2010-11 season, the Retriever men placed
third during the indoor season and fourth outdoors, while the women
finished fifth in both seasons. The 2009-10 season was highlighted
by Dominic Devaud, who was named to the CoSida/ESPN the
Magazine Academic All-America Third Team and won the
heptathlon at the America East and IC4A Indoor Championships.

Last year, the women's team earned its highest-ever
finish, third place, at the America East Indoor Championships,
and followed it up by finishing fourth at the outdoor meet, their
top-finish since 2006. The Retrievers were led by freshman
Mercedes Jackson who broke the school record in multiple events and
was named the conference's Most Outstanding Rookie at both
championship meets. Meanwhile, the men's squad took fifth
place indoors and sixth place outside.

Since Bobb's first season with the Retrievers, his squads have
produced two NCAA Championship competitors in Cleopatra Borel and
Huguens Jean. Borel won UMBC's first NCAA Championship
in the shot put in 2002. Both became All-Americans and
won multiple individual conference titles.

Prior to Bobb's rise into the coaching profession,
he was a five-time Division I All-American as a student-athlete at
UMBC and was inducted into UMBC's Athletics Hall of Fame in
February 2003, along with legendary coach Jim Pfrogner, his mentor.

Bobb became UMBC's first Division I All-American in
track and field with third-place finishes in both the 55m and 200m
dashes at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in
Indianapolis, during his junior season. His performance
alone catapulted UMBC to an 18th-place finish in the nation.

Bobb capped off his career with a second-place
result in the 100m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in
Bloomington, Ind., where he was the top American finisher in the
country and earned All-American honors for the fourth
time. He also qualified for the 200m finals, becoming an
All-American for the fifth time, but a slight muscle pull forced
him to drop out of the race.

Bobb, who was featured on the ESPN show "NCAA
Today,” graduated from UMBC with a degree in information
systems in 1997. He and his wife, Dawnnette, have two
daughters, Caitlyn Cassandra (7) and Madisyn Alexandra (5).